* two questions (insert checkbox/ dired to org)
@ 2009-05-05 13:00 henry atting
2009-05-05 13:54 ` Nick Dokos
2009-05-05 13:55 ` Bernt Hansen
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: henry atting @ 2009-05-05 13:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
What is the underlying command for this shortcut:
M-S-<RET>
Insert a new item with a checkbox
It does not work for me (if cursor is in a plain list already),
so I have to fill in checkboxes with C-c C-x C-b.
Another question: Is it possible to do something like dired-to-org,
where the directory structure (including the subdirectories) is
written to an org file?
At the moment I do something like:
find `pwd` -maxdepth 4
save the result to an org file, and additionally add `file:' at the
beginnig of each line with sed. Maybe there is something more
convenient?
Regards
henry
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2009-05-05 13:00 two questions (insert checkbox/ dired to org) henry atting
@ 2009-05-05 13:54 ` Nick Dokos
2009-05-05 15:20 ` henry atting
2009-05-05 13:55 ` Bernt Hansen
1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Nick Dokos @ 2009-05-05 13:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: henry atting; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
henry atting <nsmp_01@online.de> wrote:
>
> What is the underlying command for this shortcut:
>
> M-S-<RET>
> Insert a new item with a checkbox
>
org-insert-todo-heading - it just happens to do special things in
special cases. At the end of a plain list item or a checkbox item, it
calls (org-insert-item 'checkbox) instead of inserting a todo heading.
> It does not work for me (if cursor is in a plain list already),
> so I have to fill in checkboxes with C-c C-x C-b.
>
What does it do? And don't forget to provide version information
both for org-mode and for emacs.
> Another question: Is it possible to do something like dired-to-org,
> where the directory structure (including the subdirectories) is
> written to an org file?
> At the moment I do something like:
>
> find `pwd` -maxdepth 4
>
> save the result to an org file, and additionally add `file:' at the
> beginnig of each line with sed. Maybe there is something more
> convenient?
>
I think this would be fairly easy to implement and there are many ways
to do it, but:
I have seen requests like this before and I must admit I don't understand
why this would be useful. So this is is a useless rant from your point of
view, but maybe you could explain: what is the use of this? If you want to
be able to get to all of the files/subdirectories of the directory, why not
add a single link to the top-level directory in your org file and then use
the facilities of dired from there? Why is it important to have links to all
the files?
HTH,
Nick
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* Re: two questions (insert checkbox/ dired to org)
2009-05-05 13:54 ` Nick Dokos
@ 2009-05-05 15:20 ` henry atting
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: henry atting @ 2009-05-05 15:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
On Di, Mai 05 2009, Nick Dokos wrote:
> henry atting <nsmp_01@online.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> What is the underlying command for this shortcut:
>>
>> M-S-<RET>
>> Insert a new item with a checkbox
>>
>
> org-insert-todo-heading - it just happens to do special things in
> special cases. At the end of a plain list item or a checkbox item, it
> calls (org-insert-item 'checkbox) instead of inserting a todo heading.
>
>> It does not work for me (if cursor is in a plain list already),
>> so I have to fill in checkboxes with C-c C-x C-b.
>>
>
> What does it do? And don't forget to provide version information
> both for org-mode and for emacs.
GNU Emacs 23.0.93.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.1) of
2009-05-01 on elegiac, modified by Debian
Org-mode version 6.26trans
Mmh, I found out that it works. Normally if I see a key binding like
M-S-RET I would use ESC-S-RET, but in this case the output of C-h k is:
ESC <S-return> (translated from <escape> <S-return>) is undefined
So if use alt-S-RET it works fine, but usually I never use alt for `M'.
>> Another question: Is it possible to do something like dired-to-org,
>> where the directory structure (including the subdirectories) is
>> written to an org file?
> [...]
> I think this would be fairly easy to implement and there are many ways
> to do it, but:
>
> I have seen requests like this before and I must admit I don't understand
> why this would be useful. So this is is a useless rant from your point of
> view, but maybe you could explain: what is the use of this? If you want to
> be able to get to all of the files/subdirectories of the directory, why not
> add a single link to the top-level directory in your org file and then use
> the facilities of dired from there? Why is it important to have links to all
> the files?
When I am pondering about my request I am not so sure anymore if it
would be really usefull. But then again at first I found it helpfull to have
something like a table of contents where all the files are hierarchically
listed.
However the main inconvenience of such a construct is that each
alteration of the files or subdirectories would make this file
increasingly useless. One would have to create this file anew whenever
you modify something.
So something like linking to a directory is really much better. :)
henry
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* Re: two questions (insert checkbox/ dired to org)
2009-05-05 13:00 two questions (insert checkbox/ dired to org) henry atting
2009-05-05 13:54 ` Nick Dokos
@ 2009-05-05 13:55 ` Bernt Hansen
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Bernt Hansen @ 2009-05-05 13:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: henry atting; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
henry atting <nsmp_01@online.de> writes:
> What is the underlying command for this shortcut:
>
> M-S-<RET>
> Insert a new item with a checkbox
,----[ C-h k M-S-return ]
| <M-S-return> runs the command org-insert-todo-heading
| which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `org.el'.
| It is bound to <M-S-return>.
| (org-insert-todo-heading arg &optional force-heading)
`----
>
> It does not work for me (if cursor is in a plain list already),
> so I have to fill in checkboxes with C-c C-x C-b.
It works great for me creating checkboxes automagically.
-Bernt
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